In their Conversation article, Dr Anna Cermakova and Prof Michaela Mahlberg write about gender imbalance in children's literature – with examples from the ChiLit corpus.

Dr Nicholas Groom, Professor Susan Hunston and Dr Florent Perek will be participating in the Colloquium 'Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar' at AAAL 2018, Chicago, Sunday 25 March 2018.
The CLiC Dickens team (Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Professor Peter Stockwell and Viola Wiegand) gave a talk at the Dickens Day 2017: 'Textual patterns of dreaming and the unconscious mind in Dickens'.

Following the firing of the White House communications Director, Professor Michaela Mahlberg discusses linguistic effects within the digital age.
Professor Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham), CI on the CLiC Dickens project, discusses interdisciplinary work at the interface of corpus stylistics and cognitive poetics.
We have added a new feature for sorting and grouping concordance lines to CLiC.

Paul Thompson is an invited speaker at a one day British Academy funded event on the theme 'Researching, teaching and learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP): Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics (CL)'
Professor Michaela Mahlberg, interviewed at the Hay Festival, talks about Corpus Linguistics as a method of quickly surveying word usage in texts and illustrates how we can use it to analyse Dickens.

The 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference will take place in the week of 24 - 28 July 2017 at the University of Birmingham.

Paul Thompson is an invited speaker at a one-day seminar on 'Using corpus-based methods to support multidisciplinary research' at the University of Hertfordshire on Monday 27 June.
The 11th Sinclair Lecture was delivered by Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Chair in Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research.
We are very pleased to announce that the first part of the European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) can be searched by registered users via the internet.